saw No Doubt play at University of Houston in 1993-94, hell maybe 92-93., a lunch set at the UC Sattelite (like a student union thing) , helped set up the PA and the soundboard (I was in student prgram board) and sat and klaughed as a chick in a well worn green cheerleader outfit proceeded to try and rock out a gropu of about 80 university students trying to eat their lunch.

it sucked. she was very aloof, but her bandmates were nice and we helped them set up their shit and take down their shit.

i relate to this.
when i start thinking about it, my mind blocks in peculiar and uncomfortable ways. my 3rd middle name was livebands, oh well until atp2004, moreover with atp06, when i stopped going to many shows that take place locally.
glice is right, but i wish i knew. i never counted or kept lists -only the tickets-

Now if the title of the thread was 'name all the bands you've seen that you can remember from t-shirts or ticket stubs in eyeshot' I could say:

Melt Banana
The Fall
Elastica
Blur
Glastonbury festival a few times.

I can also see a ticket stub for a quartet doing Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, but I can't remember who that was and the quartet name has rubbed itself out.

I also, apparently, saw the Revenger's Tragedy at the Olivier theatre, which I don't remember at all.

Enlightening thread is enlightening.

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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Last time I was in Chicago I spent an hour in a Nazi submarine with a banjo player.

I won't be able to list all of them at one sitting so I'll be editing my list quite a few times. I won't list local or regional bands. Some of the acts I saw when I was younger (Nash/Crosby, Ted Nugent) are kind of embarrassing but we all go through a period like that. I will list nationally known/touring opening acts in parens.

If you can list them all, you are either a zygote or you live in a desert on top of a mountain in the middle of the ocean.

Wrong. I have (1) a rather good memory, and (2) some lists I've kept. My initial post in this thread was off the top of my head. But I would never be able to remember all of the local and regional bands--or at least how many times I've seen them.

Sometimes I find myself unable to remember whether I saw such and such a band or not. For example I can't remember if I saw Arab Strap play at the Union Chapel in London circa the year 2000, or if I'm imagining it. I remember I saw The Ex in 2003 or 2004, but I think I might have seen them another time, but I can't remember. Etc.

I sort of wish I'd kept a list of all the shows I've been to, mainly because I'd like to reread it and be surprised to learn I saw this or that band, or to look at it and have no idea of who this or that band even were.
Also I'd like to remember all the uniquely terrible opening acts that would for short periods become as legendary among me and friends as any of the best performances we saw. Such remorseless turds as Gay Against You, Lely White, Seymour Wright, Wolves of Greece, David Toop, Whole Voyald Infinite Light, Yasunao Tone, etc. However these shows slip my memory after some time.

Sometimes I find myself unable to remember whether I saw such and such a band or not. For example I can't remember if I saw Arab Strap play at the Union Chapel in London circa the year 2000, or if I'm imagining it. I remember I saw The Ex in 2003 or 2004, but I think I might have seen them another time, but I can't remember. Etc.

I sort of wish I'd kept a list of all the shows I've been to, mainly because I'd like to reread it and be surprised to learn I saw this or that band, or to look at it and have no idea of who this or that band even were.
Also I'd like to remember all the uniquely terrible opening acts that would for short periods become as legendary among me and friends as any of the best performances we saw. Such remorseless turds as Gay Against You, Lely White, Seymour Wright, Wolves of Greece, David Toop, Whole Voyald Infinite Light, Yasunao Tone, etc. However these shows slip my memory after some time.

I have the same problem. I am not even going to try to make a list because I forget how many times I saw bands, I forget who opened, when, where, etc. because I've seen so many shows and the memories just jumble together.

Sonic Youth
Pixies
Big Sexy Noise
Retrovirus
Lydia Lunch
SWANS
Depeche Mode
Loudboy
Skunk Anansie
The Virginmarys
The Soft Moon
Peter Murphy
Clan Of Xymox
Collapsing New People
ASP
Mono Inc.
Carsick Cars
Leftöver Crack
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Dividing Lines
She Past Away
Martial Canterel
Schwefelgelb
Status Quo
Pharmakon
Christian Death
The Beauty Of Gemina
Diary Of Dreams
The Sisters Of Mercy
Terra Toma
The Bassenger
Primordial Undermind (Go, ATT!)
Outer Vertex (Go, ATT!)
Dim Locator
Harry Howard and the Near Death Experience
Kitty In A Casket
And Also The Trees
Mogwai
32Crash
Hocico
De/Vision
Assemblage 23
VNV Nation
Sanguis Et Cinis
Bal Paré
Killed By 9V Batteries
Earth, Wind & Fire
Lee Ranaldo
The Chemists
Blueblut
Mediengruppe Telekommander
KISS (heard live more accurately, I live close to a place that is used as an open air venue each summer)
Metallica (same thing as with KISS, heard them, didn't care much for it but I was with people I like and it didn't cost me a thing)
Muse (same scheme)
The Prodigy (same scheme)